Brooklyn-based art rockers TV on the Radio, the Posies and Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore are among the highlights of the more than two dozen acts that will be featured at the Capitol Hill Block …

Seattle’s most notable philanthropists are now on display at the National Portrait Gallery.

A painting of Bill and Melinda Gates was installed at the gallery Tuesday, and I’d say it’s a dead ringer for the billionaire couple.

The portrait features the Gates Foundation founders seated in front of a screen bearing this text: “All lives have equal worth.” Behind that, there’s Lake Washington and a vaguely-impressionistic sky of clouds.

The sounds resemble the soundtrack of horror movie at first — eerie shrieks that seem clear yet far away.

But these sounds aren’t from a movie. They from the work of Kate Stafford, an oceanographer at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington. She’s researching bowhead whales in the Arctic , where she records the striking sounds of life beneath frozen waters.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s reproductive affair with a staffer was necessary to save humanity from the machines, actor George Takei revealed Tuesday. “Schwarzenegger confesses to fathering baby with house …